EVE General Discussion

I'd be surprised if they make current things unable to be done by an individual.

New things, or making it easier/safer/less insane to do in a group is possible though.

first they need to find something that can't be solved by throwing more alts at the problem. definitely a non-trivial task.

The S&I survey is broken.

That would seriously make me want to slit my wrists.

Like many others I run a alt indy corp, because the way corp role mangment works. I will not risk my BPO and material stockpiles by letting in other players inside my corp.

I wouldn't say the number of production lines is too high. You often have to go to some backwater systems to not have a wait. Its just that the demand for the product is not necessarily balanced with the production capability. Since you are in a null-sec alliance, I am assuming you are comparing the number of lines in highsec with the number available in null-sec. Null-sec industry is so bad it is a joke. Trying to supply a null-sec region with its available production lines is like trying to put out a raging hi-rise fire with a dixie-cup of water.

However, less clicks, please.

I left this exact feedback in the survey. The ability to split or consolidate BPCs with similar levels would be incredible. For instance, splitting a single 10 run BPC into 10 one run BPCs, so I can queue them all at once. Mind you, queue them all at once through the new and improved non-click-festy interface, of course. Or, conversely, take a bunch of different run BPCs and combine them into a single larger BPC, up to the maximum possible run count, of course.

The first part would actually be equivalent to not locking up the BPC in the job, so you can run concurrent jobs from it. The whole thing, in fact, could have a much simpler interface - just input {number of jobs} x {number of runs}, drop in a bunch of BPCs with enough runs to cover the total, and click OK.


P.S. - The reason most people do S&I solo is because the stakes are too high for someone to place any amount of trust in strangers on the internet. The only people I can somewhat trust to share a POS with me are real-life friends, who I can physically reach and inflict "consequences" upon. So if you're going to force more cooperation on industrialists, please provide tools to enforce trust.

Some more means to disrupt your competitors would be nice as well.

Currently we can:
- Increase POCO tax,
-Wardec corp to take down POS

and that is pretty much it.

Highsec production slots are too plentyful, too anonimous, too cheap. Hauling can be solved with out of corp alts; and station traders (strictly not S&I) are immune to everything and everyone.

I guess this is way out of scope/reasonable but I'd like to be able to hire Dust mercenaries (or some other mechanic) to engage rival PI extractors; or blow up their production lines. Or clear out some drone infestation and have my own PI efficiency get back to 100%. Hack their hisec invention laboraties.

No one likes to be ganked or wardecced but without those two elements EVE Online would not be EVE Online anymore.

Bringing up the obvious yet again but the one thing that has to be fixed by CCP to enable industrial cooperation is to fix Corporation Roles & Permissions and their interaction with POSes & Outposts. Make them very user friendly and enable all resources and structures to be secure and free from theft or interference. Add a user friendly taxing system for corporations & alliances out there in null-sec so they can tax, hopefully fairly , ALL activities in their sov territory.

I'd imagine the best way to do this would be to develop a new system for corp roles & permissions then remove the old system and slot the new one in. That's me looking on from my luddite viewpoint - I don't expect it would be that simple. But CCP don't seem too keen on repairing the old system so the above seems logical to me.

To my mind it would have been better to to the above, or at least make a start on it, rather than introducing ghost sites, messing with warp values, and making interceptors OP. Would be nice for a change to get what we want rather than what we (don't) need.

You are asking for the game to be dumbed down. This is not what most players of EVE Online would want. We have had too much dumbing down already for example the simplification of some item names when the previous names were much better. Most players are, arguably, adults and are capable of figuring things out.

It seems to me if more co-operation is desired, the Corp structure needs fixing to facilitate this.
An option that forces shareholders to cash in shares on departure.
A type of share that doesn't permit have voting rights would get ordinary members involved without risk to the Corp owners.
A more advanced method of controlling budgets limits so individuals with access can't clear out the corp.
A Factory ship which can process ore on site and issue contracts for goods would be useful for corps doing group mining ops, and would make it more profitable to co-operate.